Redwoods in Virginia
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Growing Redwoods on the East Coast - Possible?
Comments (190)Here is one I didn't know about. Looks like they LOVE the high summer rainfall, and deep sandy soils of southeastern Virginia! The best Cryptomeria I've ever seen on the east coast (probably, anywhere! I've never been to JP or CN) was somewhere in Norfolk but I doubt I could ever find it again. http://bigtree.cnre.vt.edu/detail.cfm?AutofieldforPrimaryKey=660 Time for those folks to install a lightning arrester for that tree! Or make sure the church spire is well grounded so that it diverts the charge LOL....See Moreredwoods and Giant Sequoia in the mid-atlantic...
Comments (27)Simple answer: sempervirens can be grown in the southeast and can take the heat. giganteum does not like high humidity heat, and grows much slower in east coast summers than it does out west with dry summers. Can be grown, but will not thrive and the amount of maintenance required usually makes it more of a specimen tree for arboretums and botanic gardens than anything else. Basically, you want to grow a tree in the redwood family requiring less maintenance and much more ease, and you live on the east coast, stick with cunninghamia, cryptomeria, taxodium or metasequoia (or go for the gold with glyptostrobus if you live in zones 8 and above). not sure about athrotaxis or taiwania on the east coast, any experience?...See Moreis this Dawn Redwood normal? (picture)
Comments (15)First, I miss-read as I thought it grew 2.5 feet in one or two years. Resin makes a lot of valid points and the tree still has a good chance of becoming quite wide (wide enough) with age. You should take into consideration what he's saying, and next March dig it up. Then you can check the roots and untangle them and give them a "haircut" with a pair of scissors. You'll have to wash the soil off. I'd cut a rootball 3 feet x 3 feet. Be gentle to the roots when you work the soil off. Be sure to use a lot of water. It still looks fastigiate. It's always going to have a more upright form, more so than typical seedlings... but they are just such HUGE, trees. It might be a good solution to a residential lot, your tree that is. The last option is to replace it with another small seedling ('those' in my immediate family. Dax...See Morefollow up to coastal redwood question
Comments (1)Yeah you started a fight between me and that old crank last time you posted! Just kidding, I'm just giving you hell... Get a photobucket account, they're free and pretty easy to set up, than upload the photo (self-explanatory), move the cursor over the photo, go down to the "HTML CODE" link, copy that 40-or-so-character-long code and paste it in the "message" box on this forum. I'd love to see a photo. And as far as finding a place to put it post a free ad on craigslists in COASTAL North and South Carolina... South Carolina craigslist: http://geo.craigslist.org/iso/us/sc North Carolina: http://geo.craigslist.org/iso/us/nc Hell, try Atlanta, too. I'm sure SOMEBODY will take it. You could call William and Mary college, too, they've got lots of weird, exotic species growing on their campus and if you find the right person somebody will probably be into taking it. What you've got is a valuable thing right there, somebody will take it as a donation......See Moredecogrl
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